This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to ...

March 16, 1968, is one of the darkest days in U.S. military history. On that day, the soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, ...

From Elon Musk to Sen. Bernie Sanders, there is widespread agreement that the Department of Defense is way too slow in how it develops, acquires, deploys, maintains, and upgrades technology. However, ...

In 1975, the New York Times reported on a growing number of transmission problems in Pontiacs, Buicks, Cadillacs, and several other General Motors cars. The source of the trouble was a recent law ...

We are sharing a free episode of Thinking the Unthinkable with you all due to fast-moving events between India and Pakistan.

Michael Bustamente of the University of Miami was critical of the first Trump administration’s maximalist approach toward ...

A few years ago, a young U.S. military officer asked me a pointed question: “Do you think we’re getting too soft?” I paused, not because I didn’t have an answer, but because I knew the weight behind ...

Michael Kofman and Dara Massicot join Ryan to unpack how the Trump administration's ambitious peace efforts have collided ...

The Pentagon is claiming to make room for small businesses, but in practice it’s reinforcing a new class of giants, and ...